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Record Nr.

UNISA996387160803316

Titolo

The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco [[electronic resource] ] : whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame's [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed and are to be sold by the several booksellers, 1676

Descrizione fisica

[6], 72 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

HancockJohn <fl. 1638-1675.>

HancockJohn <fl. 1669-1705.>

James, King of England,  <1566-1625.>

MaynwaringeEverard <1628-1699?>

ThomsonGeorge <fl. 1648-1679.>

WardSamuel <1577-1640.>

SylvesterJosuah <1563-1618.>

EverardGiles

WitherGeorge <1588-1667.>

Soggetti

Tobacco habit - Great Britain

Tobacco - Physiological effect

Tobacco

Smoking in art

Coffee habit - Great Britain

Coffee

Alcoholism - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication signed: J.H. (i.e. John Hancock).

Previously published under title: Two broad-sides against tobacco (London : Printed for John Hancock, 1672).

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-K⁴.



Illustrations: 1 print : woodcut ; full-page. Subject: "The picture represents the tobacchonists [sic] armes, and Turks coffee-house."

Woodcut and type flower headpieces; ornamental and criblé initials.

Reproduction of original in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Nota di contenuto

A counterblast to tobacco (p. 1-12) -- Dr. Maynwaring's serious cautions against tobacco, collected out of his Treatise of the scurvy, (p. 70) -- Preservation of health in the choice of drinks, and regular drinking  / transcribed verbatim out of Doctor Maynwaring's Treatise of long life --  Another collection against tobacco-smoking / written by ... George Thompson, in his book Of preservation of the bloud -- Woe to drunkards : a sermon / preached many years since by Mr. Samuel Ward --Tobacco battered and the pipes shattered ... / collected out of the famous poems of Joshua Sylvester, Gent. -- A broad-side against coffee, or, The marriage of the Turk --  Collection ... taken out of that book of Dr. Everard's, entituled,  The vertue of tobacco -- A postscript, by way of apology.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0189